It should be called up(&mq->sem) to release semaphore before returning error codes as -EFAULT when list is empty. Signed-off-by: Chaehyun Lim <chaehyun.lim@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c index f57e4ec..5fe85eb 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ int wilc_mq_recv(struct message_queue *mq, if (list_empty(&mq->msg_list)) { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mq->lock, flags); + up(&mq->sem); PRINT_ER("msg is null\n"); return -EFAULT; } -- 2.7.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel